Resources in the St. Luke Library

Women’s History Month (PDF)

For children:
Biographies include Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Deb Haaland (U.S. Cabinet Secretary), Ruby Bridges, Amelia Earhart, Anne Frank, Rosa Parks, Sadako, Sojourner Truth, Harriet Tubman, Malala Yousafzai, and Wangari.
Collections-
Clinton, Chelsea. She Persisted: 13 American Women Who Changed the World.
She Persisted Around the World: 13 Women Who Changed History.
Cook, Michelle. Our Children Can Soar: A Celebration of Rosa, Barack, and the Pioneers
             of Change.
Gillibrand, Kirsten. Bold & Brave: Ten Heroes Who Won Women the Right toVvote.
Greene, Carol. Beggars, Beasts, & Easter Fire: Early Saints.
Halligan, Katherine. Herstory: 50 Women and Girls Who Shook Up the World.
Hood, Susan.  Shaking Things Up: 14 Young Women Who Changed the World.
Keene, Adrienne. Notable Native People: 50 Indigenous Leaders, Dreamers, and Changemakers From Past to Present.
Obama, Barack. Of Thee I Sing: A Letter to My Daughters.
Marzollo, Jean. My First Book of Biographies.
Shaw, Maura. Ten Amazing People and How They Changed the World.
Winter, Jonah. Peaceful Heroes.
Zalben, Jane Breskin. Paths to Peace: People Who Changed the World.

For teens:
Biographies include Maya Angelou, Marian Wright Edelman, Anne Frank, Winona LaDuke, Mother Teresa, Rosa Parks, Sojourner Truth, and Harriet Tubman.
Collections-
Ashby, Ruth, ed. Herstory: Women Who Changed the World.
Bollinger, Michele. 101 Changemakers: Rebels and Radicals Who Changed US History.
Cone, Molly. The Mystery of Being Jewish: 19 Notable People. 
Flynt, Faye De Beck. They Dared to Cross Frontiers- King, Parks, Woolman, Douglas.
Hood, Susan. What Would She Do? 25 True Stories of Trailblazing Rebel Women.
Ventura, Varla. Sheroes: Bold, Brash, and Absolutely Unabashed Superwomen.

For adults and teens:
Biographies include Maya Angelou, clergywomen of our presbytery (including St. Luke's Sally Hill), Anne Frank, Jane Goodall, Josie Johnson (MN), Nellie Stone Johnson (MN), Winona LaDuke, Mother Theresa, women mystics and peacemaker pioneers, Rosa Parks (books on CD), Peace Pilgrim, Eleanor Roosevelt, and German theologian Dorothee Soelle.